basic concept part 1 Flashcards
function or use of viruses
- phage typing
- sources of enzyme
- pesticides
- anti-bacterial agents
- anti-cancer agent
- gene vectors
enzymes in
molecular biology
virus enzymes
The viruses
that infect prokaryotes are often referred to as
bacteriophages, or phages
virus genome is composed of
double stranded dna
single stranded dna
double stranded rna
single stranded rna
Some insect pests are controlled with
baculoviruses and myxoma virus
viruses use and function
Phage typing of bacteria
Sources of enzymes
Pesticides
Anti-bacterial agents
Anti-cancer agents
Gene vectors
Martinus Beijerinck in Holland and Dimitri Ivanovski
in Russia – made extracts from diseased plants infected with
tobacco mosaic virus
virus genome is composed of
double stranded dna
single stranded dna
double stranded rna
single stranded rna
whose scientist give the term virus
Beijerinck
transmitted foot
and mouth disease from animal to animal in inoculum
that had been highly diluted
Freidrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch
who demonstrated that the
causative agent of yellow fever is a filterable agent.
Walter Reed and James Carroll
first human virus, yellow fever virus
1901
chicken leukemia virus, polio virus
1908
rabies virus
1903
influenza virus
1933
bacteriophages
1915
rous sarcoma virus
1911
variola virus
1906
An infectious obligate intracellular parasite comprising
genetic material (DNA or RNA), often surrounded by a
protein coat, sometimes a membrane
virus
important part of virus
genetic material which is dna and rna
and protein coat
size of virus
20-300 nm
specificity host cell
viral tropism
parasites cell requirement
- building block (amino acid, nucleotide)
- protein synthesis (ribosome)
- energy(ATP)
Units in which virions are normally measured
nanometer
Smallest virus infecting humans and animals
parvovirus
Microbe-mimicking virus
mimivirus
large virus infecting human
poxvirus
largest virus
mimivirus
size of parvovirus
20nm
size of mimivirus
500nm
picorna
30nm
poliovirus
25nm
paramyxo
150-300 nm
ssDNA
Porcine circovirus